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Nuts may boost male fertility: study

Eating nuts on a regular basis was found to "significantly" boost sperm quality and quantity in young men, researchers found. [File, AFP]

Eating nuts "significantly" boosted the number and health of sperm in young men in a scientific trial, researchers said Wednesday.

The findings "support a beneficial role for chronic nut consumption in sperm quality," they said, but stressed the study participants were all healthy, apparently fertile men.

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